Report says nearly 30% of Black Friday online sales came from smartphones and tablets

If you saw a can’t-miss Thanksgiving or Black Friday discount on an item and made the purchase on your smartphone or tablet, you are part of a quickly growing set of consumers, according to Adobe. The company’s latest data shows that nearly 1 in 3 online purchases on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday happened on mobile devices.

Verizon intros XLTE-ready Ellipsis 8 tablet

Verizon on Thursday quietly added a new low-cost Android tablet to its roster. Dubbed the Ellipsis 8, it's an 8-inch XLTE-ready device with midrange hardware.

Although billed as having a "full HD" display, the tablet has a 1,280x800-pixel resolution. Considerably lower than what

With Nexus 9, HTC Could Get A Crack At Making An Android Tablet To Get People Excited

HTC is gearing up production of a Nexus 9 tablet device to showcase the Android operating system, a report from the Wall Street Journal claims. The report follows earlier rumors that this would be the case, and suggests a Nexus 9 from the Taiwanese device maker is almost a lock. But HTC is a strange bedfellow for Google in this case – the OEM swore off tablets altogether back in 2011.